In an unprecedented action taken by the government of Ukraine and its leaders, the governing body of the country has abruptly resigned on Thursday. The resignation, which was headed by Ukraine Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, highlighted the major differences of political factions in the parliament regarding the conflict in the eastern part of the country.
The UNIAN news agency quoted Yatsenyuk, who had said about the shocking move, "When there's no coalition, and the acting coalition in a parliamentary-presidential republic has collapsed, the government and the prime minister have to resign. I announce my resignation as a result of the collapse of the coalition and the blocking of government initiatives."
Buzzfeed said it was not clear whether Yatsenyuk's resignation was to fulfill the terms of an agreement that would have to dissolve the parliament or the result of squabbles and soured backdoor deals. However, it was noted that the Ukrainian PM's resignation came after two junior parties, former boxer Vitaly Klitchko's UDAR and far-right nationalists Svoboda, decided to pull out from Yatsenyuk's Fatherland party earlier.
Yatsenyuk's resignation also signalled President Petro Poroshenko to call a snap election on August 24 under the country's constitution. Buzzfeed said that if the Ukraine government is unable to form a coalition at least on the country's independence day, then snap elections would have to be done.
In the aftermath of the shooting of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane out of the sky by supposedly drunk separatists in eastern Ukraine, it has been reported that the rebels have shot down a couple of plans just 25 miles away from the crash site, according to armed forces on Wednesday, the Su-25 fighter-bombers was downed by shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles , national security spokesman Andriy Lysenko had told reporters. Unlike the devastating casualty of the earlier crash, it has been said that the pilots manning the aircraft successfully ejected and parachuted into rebel-controlled territory near a massive World War II monument called Savur-Mogyla.
